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NS government releases Green Plan, makes new protection commitments

July 27, 2003

Today the Government of Nova Scotia released it's long-overdue Environmental "Green Plan" (see Press Release). Among other things the government has made some significant new Protected Areas commitments. Specifically:

"Designate two new candidate Wilderness Areas within the Crown land blocks at Gully Lake (Colchester/Pictou Counties) and Eigg Mountain/James River (Antigonish/Pictou Counties)"

and

"Designate new Nature Reserves at Spinneys Heath, Great Barren and Quinan Lakes, and Quinns Meadow in Yarmouth County; Duncans Cove in Halifax County; and MacFarlane Woods in Inverness County"

and

"Continue to work towards a comprehensive system of protected areas"

The Nova Scotia Public Lands Coalition and its member groups welcomed the news and urged the government to get on with the process of selecting new sites for designation in order to fulfill these new policy commitments.

• Click here to view the Green Plan - Towards a Sustainable Environment

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